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What infections are, how they are transmitted and those at higher risk of infection
- Updated: 5 March 2025
People with symptoms of a respiratory infection including COVID-19

Guidance for people with symptoms of a respiratory infection including COVID-19, or a positive test result for COVID-19.
- Updated: 10 June 2022
Emerging infections: how and why they arise
- Updated: 5 January 2023
Helminth infections: migrant health guide

Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners.
- Updated: 31 March 2025
Emerging infections: characteristics, epidemiology and global distribution

Information on the reasons behind human infectious disease emergence, including a timeline and a global map.
- Updated: 5 January 2023
People who inject drugs: infection risks, guidance and data

This guide is about infections that occur in people who inject drugs (PWID).
- Updated: 3 November 2017
Group A Streptococcus

Information and guidance on group A streptococcal infections.
- Updated: 4 November 2024
Detection and identification of infectious diseases

Foresight project looking at the detection and identification of infectious diseases over the next 10 to 25 years.
- Updated: 3 April 2014
High consequence infectious disease: country specific risk

Listing of countries with a known occurrence of high consequence infectious disease (HCID).
- Updated: 20 March 2025
Infection prevention and control: resource for adult social care
- Updated: 1 March 2024

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